disease threat to British ash trees

[Meadowcopse]

Reported in the Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/countryside/9319741/Disease-threatens-Britains-ash-trees-for-first-time.html

[Neil]

The most bizarre aspect of the report in the Telegraph is the sentence: "The unnamed nursery imported 2,000 young trees from its Dutch supplier in November last year - and sold them by mail order to 90 different gardeners and firms nationwide. " If there is truly a desire to locate the ash trees sold by this nursery, why in heaven's name isn't it named, then the "gardners and firms" could all see whether that was where they'd acquired their trees? And anyway, why are we imporing ash trees? We have dozens of self-set wild ones. They grow like weeds in our wood. Neil

[Meadowcopse]

Possible legal aspects regarding naming the nursery in the press?

This is from the FERA webpages and suggests Buckinghamshire in the table:
http://www.fera.defra.gov.uk/search.cfm?q=Chalara+fraxinea

Being as the Dutch are market leaders in bulk horticulture, I can see the appeal from a nurseryman's aspect.
The general ethics of cross-border plant transfers could be debated for days at professional, biological and conservation levels...